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tv   Close up  Deutsche Welle  July 16, 2024 2:15pm-2:45pm CEST

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gray war was one of the bloodiest conflicts and recent history. facebook has been accused the time and time again, of stoking ethnic tensions in ethiopia. sorts of media had a lot of thoughts. like why miss calling for about us? that's why it was one of those. yes. west we have seen in the last few the kids the on slot of violence claims, the lives of half a 1000000 people, master for them kill without mercy. you must motor them ruthlessly. does facebook put profit in market power above the lives of human beings? countless hate posts are still online pictures someone or maybe let's go in button to this a just places like tempest or most points for pointing out someone's house like someone is like hiding here. they've coined key parking. how could the social network that promised people in the open and interconnected world become
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a weapon used by warmongers and perpetrators? so showing it as one of the hips bridge investigators because people use it wrong without us. he won't even like to go on facebook for one second . hey, truth is one of the most important factors to win a war. we must have it moved to delete, delete the new. you do need to delete the delete, delete the date with the date. delete, delete, delete of the after 2 years of devastation, there's a festive spirit back on the streets of the tick ryan, capital mckayla. i send an events celebrating women and girls as being held for the
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1st time since before the war. but amid the singing and dancing and traditional garments, the scores of war are everywhere. the less then as a head nurse, she has heard countless reports of the sexual violence perpetrated during the conflict. she runs the one stop center for rape victims at night or hospital one of the few clinics in mckayla and that was not destroyed. ready this 40 year old woman reported being raped repeatedly by 15 soldiers and a remote village. before losing consciousness,
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she remembers that one of them took out his phone and started filming as soon as possible. i mean, it was around 9 in the morning. i blacked out after they attacked me. i must have been lying there all day. nobody helped me. when i came to in the evening, everything was gone. everything i had with me on own own goods. social media was used as a weapon and that took wry war. the footage of rape and mass shootings was used to traumatize and dish humanize. the other side of the mess spends explanation for the share brutality of the conflict. is that the propaganda spread online by all parties was posted and re posted by the
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packet hospital. there was this constant preaching of hate on both social media and mainstream media, especially in on par on media. oh yeah, i think again and hopefully the government tried to gloss over it by using terms like permission for law and order, but people were being told to kill innocent civilians to review and children and women for me to grow. i had and read the teenagers a good the victims have to run for their lives with nothing to eat and move from one refugee camp to the next and up with that sort of stuff i think is the war began when the easy obedient army sent troops entity dry, the northern most part of the country, a violent civil war ensued. many observers felt for all the martyrs of genocide, one such observer and what's to say, a tech lean from amnesty international. the weight westport was extremely broke. that was in less than a week to mike, got it on my 2nd house up and about 200 people with little bit of bites in small
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fight. i mean, if you like to risk them today, and that is that's a must not cut off that in my 2nd, facebook played a pivotal role in the conflict with atrocities directly linked to hate speech posted on the platform. incendiary posts were not just tolerated. they were actively disseminated by government officials and media outlets. fuel to the fire and an already deeply polarized and divided society. they should be known as the last, if they are kind, nothing like satan was created after satan's fault. why is that what has adopted that? of course, that mode on is that good on testing. so that's, that also reflects on the search kind of media. and the government was kind of the leading goods that, that zoe out. a cleaning tab switch. we had to kind of accept it by the director
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position for just as utah chief among the agitators was the e d. o be in prime minister of the alphabet. the 2019 nobel peace prize laureate team 9 of the countries various ethnic groups and hatred against take. ryans, he repeatedly referred to them as the cancer of the d, o, b r, as leads that needed to be removed and as a whole into online posts by abby smith and his advisors made no secret of their goal. genocide, even though the people are the enemy of all ethiopian people, the enemy of the aroma people, the sr, the gun, baylor, and the somali. we will not rest until the enemy is buried because it was good for the women and the makayla clinic for fear of returning to her village and the stigmatization she faces is too great. the head nurse lulu messman, offers her a place in a women's shelter for the time being. but the incendiary videos are still online
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for anyone to see what explains the inaction on the part of facebook and other social media platforms, news one, and so it can be found in the canyon capital nairobi, the calendar mild, we use on her way to her night shift for a job that involves deleting hate posts online when she moved here from west africa some 3 years ago. she was looking forward to a career in the booming tech saying that at least was what was promised in the job offer as content moderator we signed up and did in fact find herself working for facebook all the indirectly her
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immediate employer was a low profile sub contractor called summer source, the course clinton's more dre toyota is quite a very dangerous walk with at the same time. it's also a very no board work to do because we are like the internet or the social media. so jazz or firefight has and all of that. so with that to protect people from watching the most public and unacceptable things that human is supposed to watch. so instead of the want to see it, we are the ones behind the scenes watching those top seat contents at salma. it wasn't just the content that was toxic. the working conditions were the polling to always job description, referred to tagging images and writing brief texts. there was no mention of violence, the content on her very 1st shift. she had to watch footage of
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a person being beaten to death. but to delete, delete the name. it was her introduction to a job that meant being presented with a new harrowing video every 55 seconds for 8 hours a day. delete, delete, delete. without us, he won't even like to go on facebook for one second. if those things we see been released, everyone to see physical would have been long gone by now. no one would want logan . ready ready ready well, facebook spends millions and employees thousands of moderators to review content in europe in the us. the budget for africa is minimal. ready ready ready ready the hourly wage there is $2.20 with just $200.00 moderators for the entire continent when the to cry warm again, there were just 5 cover immediately. yeah. ready ready ready then why is that
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crisis protocol it's we start receiving a more uh, traffic the kids hate speech and is a think about. but if i exempted to put in my chair down opinion about that, i the tribes that item, the groups maybe to begin to be changed out of a particular place to be bind to the deluxe to be at least that fuzzy go get bracky narrowly escaped the war she fled to nairobi where she was grateful to find work as a content moderator at sama source. but soon enough, the war caught up with her in her new job. the thing is, when i talk about them, i will have flashbacks. and i don't want to have flashbacks cuz it will make me motional are you?
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so i just i try not so, you know, imagine what i saw. but basically it's just the worst thing that you can imagine. content is pre screened by a computer algorithm. but a human being ultimately decides what gets deleted. critics have repeatedly called for the improvement of moderators working conditions. one such critic is kenyan lawyer, mercy more. tell me, who says facebook clearly failed and its duties. ready ready ready ready content which is almost taking place in kenya for the content that was being shed any fuel cap, the content, i'm wondering, it does. that's why i've been given this job one not even drawn from the communities in whose language that's kind of content was being posted. for example, in this case degree. now there was no degree of content for data. so when you tell
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someone who doesn't understand the language to moderate that post, what's going to happen? again, if you already have a handful of moderate as to kids for the 2 pan market and millions of posts that are being shipped on a daily basis that we're looking for a physical clean defendants. efficacy is going to be super, super disappointing. hm. the lawyer has been representing the moderators and a legal dispute with meta, the parent company of facebook. they're demanding better and working conditions and psychological counseling. time, he believes facebook is driven by greet. and kenya, a country with low wages and blacks working conditions has become a hub for content, moderation from meta and tick tock. to open a i all the major online platforms, employees, so called click workers, what's considered to be cheap, indispensable labor. they've capitalized on this culture of instilling fee. yeah.
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in the moderators. see, suppose to fee a, the pull that to you come from because they use documents like we, we kind of, we time you back to a point i t as a matter of fact, this is the 1st instance um, i'm seeing a case where in the recruitment advertisements specifically wanted people who came from poor backgrounds and the specific a us that questioning interviews like do you come from a port background which in august? yeah. and that using degree should. so does that come from thread that you're going to lose your job, but then the same time, there's a constant trip that we could destroy your life. you just don't know how we could do it, but we could destroy your life. and we're just like, hidden behind those compute as behind the phase where people feel safe and now we are so totally damaged. at the end of the day we're damaged,
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we're destroyed, of ritual is normal because of the kind of joy we engaged ourselves to do. which we never taught it was that dangerous. we're just like for us. and we'd like it to the deceptive way. data created on the someone who has experienced the deadly real life consequences of online hate. is this young woman she's gripped by fear when she walks down, the city streets are not long ago to grinds like her, were subjected to arbitrary detention with tens of thousands disappearing in camps . she herself lost her father and brother
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the the woman who grew up in the village in the eastern ethiopian merchant ryan's constitute a minority. her father was a well off farmer and respect that business man. but when the war broke out, she and 8 other residents were targeted in a hate campaign. a post on facebook claim that they were spies and called for a tax on them. her father was at the top of the list of targets, the post when 5 right, and was shared hundreds of times in the region. for one local militia. it was proof enough. they rated the village, looking for the legend, spies,
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plundering homes belonging to ethnic ryan's. the young woman was living in addis ababa at the time. her mother told her what happened when the militiamen entered the family's house. at 1st they forced my father, my brother, and my mother to get on their knees. they then have to crawl out of the house. my mother pleaded with them saying they were regular people just caring for their children. she asked why? oh, but the men didn't respond. they said my family were spies fighting against the government . they kept repeating, the accusations being spread on facebook. that was the last time my mother saw my phone number and my brother. her father and brother were shot dead and their own yard. when the attackers moved on to rate other homes, her mother took the opportunity to escape. she says the 22 people were murdered. that day. a massacre that she blames on facebook. i'm sure of it.
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nothing would have happened to my family, have it not been for the misinformation on facebook. people are too reliant on facebook. they believe everything that's posted there in my village, but i don't question if what they're reading on social media is true or false, they just accept it. i know that my father and brother would still be alive if that post hadn't appeared on facebook. the killing of her father and brother was not an isolated incident. that's a great war song. thousands of dogs and post online attacks revealing the name, address, and photo of targets. as the world's biggest social networking side, facebook is a natural avenue for the dissemination of such post. plus it's algorithm ensures that insightful and inflammatory posts are viewed by an especially large number of people. what has become very key is that hate cells and
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humble posts tend more then post such as your new email, send, the images, say metric to the al griffin, encourages the posts that are likely to go viral, to go even more by all right. so if you loved that and during the habits of posting is lametre content, we're just going to keep making it that much worse and much more in from entry. facebook earns it's money through advertising and the mass gathering of user data, bible posts and user interaction in the form of likes. shares and comments are especially valuable, so valuable in fact, that despite security concerns raised by facebook employees, risk mitigating measures were never incorporated into the algorithm. and the case would be the opium. this lead to more polarization, more hate and more misinformation. the slightest part is just how we had to produce
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all the evidence with you. yeah, of course that's have gotten fired will and was to on the facebook platform, is to gauge environments, site and all of those postpone meet the fit for community defendants, but we're not pull down the road. be the individuals extensively employed to make facebook safer or fire, or after kona molig we finally could get bracky done, and 182 other content moderators, sued meta and their direct employer summit source. they were immediately dismissed . not just content review was left in the lurch. the moderators were left without pay for months, unsure how to cover their rent,
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and other basic expenses. the, the 2 women meet on the roof of monkeys. apartment building painting is helping them to process their traumatic experiences. mobley has been struggling with severe depression ever since. she took the job as content moderator. i just wish i'm just out of this world. i've had enough for heard this speech. part enough. i grew up with the dad and i thought i would have family members that would support me and all that. but obviously knowing i'm going to a lot even if of 18 of not,
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no one cares even if i'm dead or life sometimes just feel like an ended order. but at the same time, when a new cut may, mom i didn't go into the field of heart, so i just have to pretend like everything is okay. cohen amalgam. she says the image is during her time. it's on the source are burned in her memory, and the stress still looms. there's been a suicide among her former colleagues. a young man who hangs himself and his apartment. the former moderators hope that their legal action will help to create better working conditions to do this difficult job. and ideally, changes will be made to facebook's algorithm that prevent harmful content from being amplified and going viral. fasick a bracky don often had the impression that her work was in veins
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not only is thoughts or negative words that people would call us before the contents. also, there were so many videos that was plugged by us, but never get deleted. so who is especially a classic videos we were tired of slugging them because you know, once you see it and then you can get traumatized over so i use it. so that's why we always thought them to be deleted, but they never got deleted. the young woman whose father and brother were killed as on her way to the recording
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studio of a local youtube or an addis ababa. she's the only member of her family who will talk frankly about what happened. she's determined to ensure that the killing of her loved ones will have consequences. the posts that lead to their deaths is still online. fake news on social media kills innocent people. i hope i'm able to show that to the big facebook pages with lots of followers. as well as to ordinary users and that they understand how their post can destroy lives. we need to raise awareness, but people also need to be punished. i know that's not easy. it's a real challenge, but we need justice. and i hope we'll make some progress
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that we can create an awareness in society about the harmful impact of fake news on facebook and other sites. that's why i'm here sharing my story. the lawyer mercy moved, tammy has already seen some progress. according can your rule that the summer source dismissals weren't on lawful and the moderators needed to be reinstated and paid. how, how old does it give you to do? is you're both a company and matter. we'll have to answer to the courts. and can you, because we can, the opiate case is pivotal, much and having seen the device so many wonderings about what's happening, you need to be in the role of a few of you and how many parts to provide me or what's happening on the platform. just the inaction itself led to the platform being weaponized
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in a very vulnerable situation. so there is a lot of responsibility around that. you might not have picked the gun, but you knew what was happening and it has to do nothing about it. people spoke about it, people even followed your internal, it was, seems that which is reported. push to pull them down the pull down. so that in action lead to way more violence and way more. lots of lives. not to just say, oh okay, the and mckayla mess and that is as busy as ever. dozens of new victims come to see the nurse every day. as the to growing war brought ethiopia to the brink of collapse, the warren parties agree to cease fighting and november 2022 with the withdrawal of soldiers. more women are seeking help. mess then can't say for certain how many
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victims there are. but she fears there are hundreds of thousands a and i get i, the majority of victims don't talk about what happened to them due to the trauma and discrimination. many went and stay silent. many have died alone and let them know medical care of with integrate. there's not a single family where a woman was raped and murdered us to get a this and who said had to pay the piece deal mark the dramatic breakthrough. such a grind force as agreed to hand over their weapons. in return the government and addis ababa agreed to establish an interim regional administration. whether the traumatic events of the war will ever be adequately addressed is impossible to say . but how do we know is just that people facebook that the level of authority does
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that happen in this conflict? he's not feeling and he documented it. and that, that published also was reading the kind of letter from a to a page that the deuce eh, companies out of the airport of it. and that as far as the that pro feet side of them, they don't care about the human cost. they have to be some kind of governance, both domestic and international governments on them. on model compression. meadow does not seem to have taken any major action in response to the took right case. when confronted by amnesty international with evidence of having neglected content, moderation the company rejected all the findings encountered by insisting that ethiopia is a high priority country for meta and, but it has taken significant measures to delete violating content.
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